Opening Session, Open Data and Open Knowledge Workshop, 2023
- Creators
- Group on Earth Observations
Description
This Knowledge Resource corresponds to the Opening Session during Open Knowledge Workshop 2023, Geneva, Switzerland.
The 1st GEO Open Data Open Knowledge workshop (ODOK) was held at the WMO Building, Geneva (Switzerland), from 15th to 16th June 2023. The workshop was organized by the Data Working Group, GEOSS Platform Team, and GEO Knowledge Hub Team with the support of the GEO Secretariat and the GEO Community.
Being a workshop widely supported by the GEO community, in two days of the event, ODOK counted 17 sessions (Thematic and practical), totalizing 38 hours of content. To fill these sessions, 95 speakers from 76 different organizations from 5 continents participated .
With this large amount of available content, ODOK created the perfect atmosphere for sharing content and knowledge related to Open Data and Open Knowledge practices. As a result, ODOK had approximately 400 participants, 193 in person and nearly 200 online.
Presentations
Introduction
- Presentation 1: Outlining objectives of the workshop (Yana Gevorgyan - GEO Secretariat Director)
- Presentation 2: How open data enhances support to field operations (Thao Ton That Whelan - International Committee for the Red Cross)
- Presentation 3: Benefit and Value of Open data and Open knowledge (Einar Bjorgo - UNOSAT)
- Presentation 4: Special guest intervention (Slawosz Uznanski - ESA Astronaut)
- Presentation 5: Indigenous Knowledge (Diana Mastracci - Indigenous Alliance)
What is Open Knowledge for GEO and the importance for Regional GEOs ?
- Presentation 6: GEO Towards Open Knowledge (Marie-Francoise Voidrot - OGC)
- Presentation 7: AOGEO (GU Xingfa - AOGEO)
- Presentation 8: AMERIGEO (Angelica Gutierrez - AMERIGEO)
- Presentation 9: EUROGEO (Jean Dusart - EUROGEO)
- Presentation 10: AFRIGEO (Phoebe Oduor - AFRIGEO)